New Hampshire: from grow to dispensary, what the label has to show

Step by step: New Hampshire

1. Step 1: One treatment center, grow to counter (Treatment center (ATC)) New Hampshire is medical only, and an alternative treatment center (ATC) grows, processes and dispenses its own cannabis, using only organic pesticides. A batch is cannabis of one strain, grown with the same herbicides, pesticides and fungicides and harvested at the same time. It gets a batch number, which with the strain starts the label.
2. Step 2: The ATC pulls its own sample (Treatment center (ATC)) The treatment center, not the lab, draws the sample under its own written sampling policy. The method must be statistically valid and give a random, homogenized sample, and each collection is documented with the batch, the agent who collected it and the chain of custody. The lab tells the ATC the sample size it needs for each test.
3. Step 3: Independent New Hampshire lab (Licensed laboratory) Testing must happen at an independent lab located in New Hampshire, licensed by the Department under RSA 151 and He-P 808. No ATC agent may hold any interest in it, and the ATC pays for testing. Each harvested batch is tested for its cannabinoid profile (nine cannabinoids) and contaminants: microbes, including pathogenic E. coli and Salmonella, mycotoxins and heavy metals.
4. Step 4: State-ordered pesticide check (DHHS) Pesticide testing works differently. The Department orders it at least quarterly for each cultivation location and notifies the lab directly. The lab uses samples the ATC has already sent, or ones the Department directs. A sample passes only if no prohibited pesticide or chemical on the state’s list is found above 10 parts per billion.
5. Step 5: Hold, pass or destroy (DHHS) The ATC keeps each batch set apart and unused until it has written notice that the batch passed. The lab sends the Department a copy of every failed result, and under the rule any batch that fails is destroyed and discarded as waste; the rule offers no remediation route. The ATC keeps all test results for at least four years.
6. Step 6: Package + label (Treatment center (ATC)) Cannabis goes in a plain, opaque, tamper-proof, child-resistant container with no pictures except the ATC’s logo, and New Hampshire has no universal THC symbol. The label carries the cannabinoid profile, as percent by weight for flower, and two statements in the rule’s exact words, including that the product is not certified to be free of contaminants.
7. Step 7: Dispensing label at pickup (ATC dispensary) At the dispensary, the ATC’s label on each dispensed package also carries the patient’s registry ID number, the ATC’s name, registration number, address and phone, the quantity in ounces and the date dispensed. Only registered patients and caregivers can buy, and the state’s 2024 data report counts about 14,700 patients as of June 2024.
8. Step 8: Department follow-up (DHHS) If the Department suspects contamination it can order more testing, a recall or destruction, and if a label’s cannabinoid profile looks wrong it can make the ATC retest the product. By statute, the Therapeutic Cannabis Medical Oversight Board also reviews the lab results of required testing and pesticide use each year.